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This Is Smart Growth Showcases Development at its Best
The Smart Growth Network (SGN) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) are pleased to announce the availability of This Is Smart Growth. This new publication illustrates how communities can turn their visions, values, and aspirations into reality, using smart growth techniques to improve the quality of development. Thirty-two national organizations, representing the diverse interests of the SGN, have approved This Is Smart Growth.
 This Is Smart Growth describes how, when done well, development can help create more economic opportunities, build great places where people want to live and visit, preserve the qualities people love about their communities, and protect environmental resources. Many people want to know what smart growth looks like; This Is Smart Growth illustrates and explains smart growth concepts and outcomes.
The publication features 40 places around the country, from cities to suburbs to small towns to rural communities, where good development has improved residents' quality of life. Photos illustrate how these communities have invested taxpayer money wisely, offered people more choices in housing and transportation, protected natural and working lands, promoted healthy environments, created a lasting legacy for the community, and achieved other accomplishments.
September 2006. 32 pages.
This publication is now available FREE from the Smart Growth Network. There are several ways to get this publication.
Print Copy
- Send an e-mail to nscep@bps-lmit.com and request the
publication. Ask for publication number 231-K-06-002. Be sure to include name, organization, address, and telephone number with your request.
- Call the EPA National Service Center for Environmental Publications at 800.490.9198. Ask for publication number 231-K-06-002.
Electronic Copy
You can download an electronic copy for reading and printing off your computer. Right-click on the link below and select ''Save Target As''; choose a folder to save the file where you can locate it for viewing and printing.
- Download This is Smart Growth (8.5'' x 11'' version) (32 pages/2.5mb)
- Download This is Smart Growth (8.5'' x 14'' version -- note legal size paper) (32 pages/5.2mb)
Click here for a list of communities featured in This Is Smart Growth.
Please direct all inquiries about this publication to Dan Emerine, Project Manager, Livable Communities Team, ICMA, tel. 202-962-3607, email demerine@icma.org.
Development and publication of This is Smart Growth was funded through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ICMA.
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Presentations from the 2008 Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations Conference are available online as PDF files through the AMPO website. The event was held October 28-31, 2008, in in Seattle, Washington.
The Northeast-Midwest Institute has posted on its website presentations and audio archives from the EPA-sponsored Disadvantaged Communities Network events. The Network was launched in 2006 launched to provide brownfields tools and technical assistance to local communities that are seeking to overcome economic and neighborhood disadvantage.
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